This format is intended for human inspection, but not for further processing. Hence, it may change in new versions of arbtt without notice. Example output:

2013-06-20 14:53:50 (48ms inactive):
    ( ) Navigator:      arbtt-dump - Iceweasel
    ( ) gnome-terminal-server: jojo@kirk:~/projekte/programming/arbtt/doc
    (*) gvim:           arbtt.xml + (~/projekte/programming/arbtt/doc) - GVIM2

The line with a star indicates the currently active window.

This is the default serialization format of Haskell's Show type class, one entry per line. This can be useful if the data is to be processed by further Haskell code. Example output, with indentation added manually:

TimeLogEntry
    { tlTime = 2013-06-20 14:53:50.957763 UTC
    , tlRate = 60000
    , tlData = CaptureData
        { cWindows =
            [ (False,"arbtt-dump - Iceweasel","Navigator")
            , (False,"jojo@kirk:~/projekte/programming/arbtt/doc","gnome-terminal-server")
            , (True,"arbtt.xml + (~/projekte/programming/arbtt/doc) - GVIM2","gvim")
            ]
        , cLastActivity = 48
        }
    }

JSON

For interoperability, arbtt supports dumping its data to JSON, which can easily be parsed by many different programming languages. Some level of backward-compatibility will be provided, as far as possible. Default output, again with indentation and spacing added manually:

[ ...,
  { "windows": [
      { "program": "arbtt-dump - Iceweasel",
        "title": "Navigator",
        "active": false},
      { "program": "jojo@kirk:~/projekte/programming/arbtt/doc",
        "title":" gnome-terminal-server",
        "active": false},
      { "program": "arbtt.xml + (~/projekte/programming/arbtt/doc) - GVIM2",
        "title": "gvim",
        "active":true
      }],
    "inactive": 48,
    "date": "2013-06-20T14:53:50.957Z",
    "rate": 60000},
  ...
]

AUTHORS

Joachim Breitner <mail@joachim-breitner.de>

Main author of arbtt

Sergey Astanin <s.astanin@gmail.com>

Contributor

Martin Kiefel <mk@nopw.de>

Contributor

Muharem Hrnjadovic <muharem@linux.com>

Contributor

Markus Hauck <markus1189@gmail.com>

Contributor

Thomasz Miąsko <tomasz.miasko@gmail.com>

Contributor

Waldir Pimenta <waldyrious@gmail.com>

Documentation writer

Gwern Branwen <gwern@gwern.net>

Documentation writer

Paolo G. Giarrusso <p.giarrusso@gmail.com>

Contributor

Michal J. Gajda <migamake@migamake.com>

Contributor

NOTES

1.: arbtt hackage page

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/arbtt